With the latest release of WP YouTube Lyte I fixed a problem where iOS users had to click twice to view a LYTE-embedded video; once to activate the iOS YouTube player and once to start the actual playing. On Android that problem does not exist, as LYTE embeds can be played inline in the browser. … Read more
Yesterday I released WP YouTube Lyte 1.1.5, which amongst other things has a workaround for the bug that required 2 clicks to play an Lyte-embedded Youtube on an iOS-device. The reason for the bug: WP YouTube Lyte replaces the “lyte player” with an autoplaying YouTube embed upon the first click, but Mobile Safari does not … Read more
So audio-only and playlist embedding were broken due to changes at YouTube’s side, but version 1.1.4 fixes that. Some information for those users that implement WP YouTube Lyte’s audio-only embedding feature; it got broken because YouTube started to enforce the minimal player size they recently added to their TOS. Audio-only is, for many reasons, something … Read more
[Update: this indeed got fixed with 1.1.4] So audio-only embedding is broken due to YouTube enforcing the minimum embedded player size that has been added to the TOS recently. I’m working on a fix for this, expect 1.1.4 soon. And if you’re impatient (or want to help), you can always download the development tar-ball here.
So stupid me made a (smallish) mistake when working on 1.1.0, which caused WP YouTube Lyte (rapidly approaching 80.000 downloads, thanks guys & girls) to load immediately instead of waiting for the “document loaded” event (lazy loading). That got fixed in 1.1.2 (which also loads the CSS differently, resulting in 1 file less to request), … Read more
Nope, 1.0.0 wasn’t WP YouTube Lytes final destination, the train has left that station to arrive at version 1.1.0 yesterday. Main new features include: an updated LYTE-player UI: larger display of preview image (background-size:cover instead of contain) changed look of title placeholder updated controls image support for “Infinite Scroll” as proposed by “der Tuxman” and … Read more
On a blog that uses WP YouTube Lyte which I happened to stumble across, the following warning was displayed: Hey! If you’re browsing in Firefox, there’s a very good chance that you won’t see youtube / video embeds. As I really don’t like bugs but couldn’t reproduce any issue myself, I contacted the blog’s owner … Read more
I just released the one dot ohhhh dot ohhhhhhhhhh version of WP YouTube Lyte! From the changelog: new: also works on (manual) excerpts; just add a httpv link to the “excerpt” field on the post/page admin (based on feedback from Ruben@tuttingegneri) new: if youtube-url contains “start” or “showinfo” parameters, these are used when playing the … Read more
WP YouTube Lyte is a WordPress plugin that enables high-performance, responsive, search-engine optimized and accessible YouTube video, playlist & audio-only embeds. Version 1.6.0 was released on April 3th 2015 and features authenticated access to the YouTube API to ensure continuing integration with YouTube. Before reading all the text and examples below, you should check out … Read more
I uploaded a new version of WP YouTube Lyte to the WordPress SVN repository earlier today. The markdown parser seems to be in a bad mood today and the changes in the readme.txt (the changelog, first and foremost) aren’t visible, so here’s what’s new in this release: you can now change player size from the … Read more